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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Edmund Burke

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
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 but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
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
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
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

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