Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
EDMUND BURKEWe must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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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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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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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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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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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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You can never plan the future by the past.
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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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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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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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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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