The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
EDMUND BURKEKings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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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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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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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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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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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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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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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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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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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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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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