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

Edmund Burke

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
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
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
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
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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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason

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