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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Edmund Burke

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
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
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
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
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
EDMUND BURKE

Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

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