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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

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
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
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
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral

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