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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Edmund Burke

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
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
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
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
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
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
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
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
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
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World

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