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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Edmund Burke

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
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
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
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
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
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
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
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife

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