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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

Edmund Burke

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
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
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
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
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
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
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
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
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
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife

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