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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Edmund Burke

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
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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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
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
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
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
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
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
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

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

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