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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Edmund Burke

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
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
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
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
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
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
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service

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