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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Edmund Burke

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
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
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
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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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
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
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
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
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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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live

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