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

Edmund Burke

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
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
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
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
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
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
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
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk

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