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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

Edmund Burke

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
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
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
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
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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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
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
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
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
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
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
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value

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