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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.

Edmund Burke

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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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
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
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
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
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
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue

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