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

Edmund Burke

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
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
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
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
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
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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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue

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