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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
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
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
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise

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