He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.
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Never, no, never, did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another.Edmund Burke
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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