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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Edmund Burke

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
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
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE

Destiny History Repeat
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
EDMUND BURKE

Barter Found Government Human Virtue
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
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue

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