We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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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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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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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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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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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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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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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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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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