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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Edmund Burke

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
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
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Sin Yourself
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
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
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man

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