No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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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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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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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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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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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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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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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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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