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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

Edmund Burke

Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
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
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
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
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
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
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
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value

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