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

Edmund Burke

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
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
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 people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
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
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
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
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
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
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run

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