All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
EDMUND BURKEThere is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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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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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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