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

Edmund Burke

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny

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