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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Edmund Burke

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
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
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
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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Build Prudence Rage Time
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
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral

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