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

Edmund Burke

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
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
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
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
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
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
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
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
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
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
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason

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