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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.

Edmund Burke

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
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
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
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
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
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot

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