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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Edmund Burke

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
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
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
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
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
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
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution 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
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
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

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