All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
EDMUND BURKEJustice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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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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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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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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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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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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