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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Edmund Burke

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
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
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
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
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
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
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
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
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
EDMUND BURKE

Money Statistics

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