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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
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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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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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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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
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
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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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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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure

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