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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.

Edmund Burke

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
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
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
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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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
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
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
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
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
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time

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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