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

Edmund Burke

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
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
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
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
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
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

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