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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

Edmund Burke

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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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
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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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
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
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
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
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
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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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
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
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

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