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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

Edmund Burke

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
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
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
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
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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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
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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Build Prudence Rage Time
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
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
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

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

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