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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

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
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
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
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
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
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
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
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics

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