Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
EDMUND BURKEMen are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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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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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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