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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Edmund Burke

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
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
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
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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Domination Greatness
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
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
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics

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