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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

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
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
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
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
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
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

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