It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

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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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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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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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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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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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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

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All government - indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter.

Edmund Burke in Speech on the Conciliation of America
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

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