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

Edmund Burke

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
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run

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