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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

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
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
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
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
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself

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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