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

Edmund Burke

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
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
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
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
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
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
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run

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

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