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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

Edmund Burke

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
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
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
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
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
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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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
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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Assumption Country Himself Man

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