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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Edmund Burke

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
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
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
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 read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Good order is the foundation of all things.
EDMUND BURKE

Foundation Goodness One Liner

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