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

Edmund Burke

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
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
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 great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
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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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
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
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
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive

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