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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
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
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
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
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
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
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People

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