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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 tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
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
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
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
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
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
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics

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

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

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