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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Edmund Burke

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
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
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
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
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
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
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
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
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
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
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
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
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
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
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature

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