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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Edmund Burke

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
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
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
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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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
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
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
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
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
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
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
EDMUND BURKE

Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness

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