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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

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
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
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
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
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
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
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
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
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
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
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right

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