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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.

Edmund Burke

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
EDMUND BURKE

Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom

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