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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

Edmund Burke

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
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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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
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
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
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
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
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
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
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

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