Make the revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions
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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.Edmund Burke
If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.
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Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed.
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What is it we all seek for in an election To answer its real purposes, you must first posses the means of knowing the fitness of your man and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.
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Good order is the foundation of all good things.
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In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.
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