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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

Edmund Burke

The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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