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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Edmund Burke

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
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
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
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
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
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
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
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run

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