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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 great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
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
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
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

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