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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.

Edmund Burke

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
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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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
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
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
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
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
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy

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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