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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

Edmund Burke

Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
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
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
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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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
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

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