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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Edmund Burke

Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
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
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
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.
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Greatness Justice Policy
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
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
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
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
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power

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