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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.

Edmund Burke

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
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
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
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
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
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
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
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue

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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