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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

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
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
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
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
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
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
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
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
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
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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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
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
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work

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