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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.

Edmund Burke

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
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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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
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
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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