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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Edmund Burke

Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
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
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
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
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
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
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
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 essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
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
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State

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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