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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Edmund Burke

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
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
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
EDMUND BURKE

Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
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
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
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
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
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
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
EDMUND BURKE

Mindset Religion Superstition

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