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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.

Edmund Burke

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
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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Build Prudence Rage Time
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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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
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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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
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
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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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
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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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk

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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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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