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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Edmund Burke

Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
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
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
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
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
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
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

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

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