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A great empire and little minds go ill together.

Edmund Burke

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
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
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
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
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
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
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny

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