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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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
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
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
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
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
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
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
EDMUND BURKE

Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World

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