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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

Edmund Burke

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
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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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State

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