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

Edmund Burke

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
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
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
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
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
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
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
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 credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power

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