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

Edmund Burke

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
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
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
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 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
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
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
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
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
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
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People

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