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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.

Edmund Burke

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
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
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
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
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
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
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

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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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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