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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Edmund Burke

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
EDMUND BURKE

Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
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
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
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True

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