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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Edmund Burke

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
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
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
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
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
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
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Justice Policy
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

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