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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.

Edmund Burke

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
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
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth

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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