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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.

Edmund Burke

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
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
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
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
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
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
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself

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