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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Edmund Burke

That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
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
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
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
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
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
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience

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