All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
EDMUND BURKEApplause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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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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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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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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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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