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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.

Edmund Burke

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 turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
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
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
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
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True

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