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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.

Edmund Burke

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
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
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
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
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
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
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
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
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity

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