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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

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
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
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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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
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
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
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
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
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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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

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