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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Edmund Burke

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
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
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
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
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
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
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude 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
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
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
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power

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