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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Edmund Burke

Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
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
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
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
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

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