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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

Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
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
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
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
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
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
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
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
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
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
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics

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

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