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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Edmund Burke

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
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
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
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
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
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
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

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