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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Edmund Burke

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
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
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
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 first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
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
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
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
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

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

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