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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

Edmund Burke

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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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small

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