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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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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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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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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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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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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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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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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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