Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
EDMUND BURKEAll government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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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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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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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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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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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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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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