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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Edmund Burke

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
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
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
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
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
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

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