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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
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
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power

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