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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Edmund Burke

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
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
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
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
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
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
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
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
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
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

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