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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

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
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
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
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
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
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
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
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
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason

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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