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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

Edmund Burke

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
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
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
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
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
EDMUND BURKE

Domination Greatness

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