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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Edmund Burke

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
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
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
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
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
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
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
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
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
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

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