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

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
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
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
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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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
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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