People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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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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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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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.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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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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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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