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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
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
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
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
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
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
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
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
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

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