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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.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
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
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
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
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself

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