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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

Edmund Burke

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
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
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
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
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
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
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

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