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

Edmund Burke

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution 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
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
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
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
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

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