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

Edmund Burke

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
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
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
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
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
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
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
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
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk

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