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

Edmund Burke

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
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
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People

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