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A great empire and little minds go ill together.

Edmund Burke

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics

A great empire and little minds go ill together.

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