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

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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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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
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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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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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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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
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
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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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself

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