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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

Edmund Burke

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
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
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
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
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

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