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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

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 tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
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
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
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 grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
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
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right

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