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

Edmund Burke

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
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
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
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
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
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

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