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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.

Edmund Burke

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
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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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
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
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
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
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View

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