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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.

Edmund Burke

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
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
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
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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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
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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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
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
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary

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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