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Better die standing than live kneeling.

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Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
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Dangerous Empire Let Go Wrong
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.
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Humor Interest Politics
Better die standing than live kneeling.
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Attitude Die Knees Live One Liner
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
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Celebrity Earth Famous Memorial Men
For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.
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Death Grief Loss Want
Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.
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Action Discussion Indispensable Stumble Wise
Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.
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Age Future Present Wonder
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Judgment Policy
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
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Counsellor One Liner Time Wait Wise
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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Alone Courage Defend Freedom Possession
It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.
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Agrument Belly Difficult Ears
The marketplace is democratic.
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Demorcracy Market One Liner
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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Against Failure Grace Poverty Struggle
Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.
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Action Express Level Philosophy Themselves Thinking
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
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Deceit Fair Show
For a man’s counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.
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Alone Children Counsel Danger Equality General Man Risk Weight Worth

Better die standing than live kneeling.

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