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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

Edmund Burke

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
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
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
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
EDMUND BURKE

Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try

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