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

Edmund Burke

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
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
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
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
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
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
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
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
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power

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