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

Edmund Burke

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
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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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
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
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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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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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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