Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
EDMUND BURKEBut 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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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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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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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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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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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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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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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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