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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

Edmund Burke

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
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
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
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State

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