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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Edmund Burke

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
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
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
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
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
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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