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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
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
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
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
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience

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