Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKEPeople 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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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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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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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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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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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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