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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Edmund Burke

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
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
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
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
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right

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