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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
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
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
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
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
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
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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Assumption Country Himself Man
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
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
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
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

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