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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Edmund Burke

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
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
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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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
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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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
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
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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Foundation Religion Society Stability True

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

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