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

Edmund Burke

Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
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
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
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
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
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
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
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
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves

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