It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
EDMUND BURKEPrudence 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.
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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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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.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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