No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
EDMUND BURKEAll government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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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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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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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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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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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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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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