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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Edmund Burke

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
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
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
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
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
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social

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