"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts."
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"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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"Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it."
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"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."
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"Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones."
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"Good order is the foundation of all things."
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"Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament."
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"All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing."
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"Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist."
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"A great empire and little minds go ill together."
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"You can never plan the future by the past."
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"A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."
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"Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel."
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"In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind."
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"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny."
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"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."
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"When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer."
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"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."
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"History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite."
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"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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