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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Edmund Burke

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
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
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
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
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
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom

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