The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
EDMUND BURKEDogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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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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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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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 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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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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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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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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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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