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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

Edmund Burke

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
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 true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral

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