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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Edmund Burke

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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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
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
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
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
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
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity

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