Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
EDMUND BURKEAll men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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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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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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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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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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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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