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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

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
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
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
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
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right

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