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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

Edmund Burke

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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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
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
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
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
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
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
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
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning 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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