The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
EDMUND BURKEA State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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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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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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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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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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