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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.

Edmund Burke

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
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
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
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
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
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
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
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
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
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering

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