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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Edmund Burke

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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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
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 that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
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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Infant Original Planning Thinking
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation

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