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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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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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