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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

Edmund Burke

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
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
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
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
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
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
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World

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