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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Edmund Burke

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
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense 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
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
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
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
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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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People

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