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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Edmund Burke

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
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
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 only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
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
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
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
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
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
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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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

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