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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Edmund Burke

To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
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
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
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
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
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
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
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
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness

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