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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 greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
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
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
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

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