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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Edmund Burke

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
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
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing

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