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A great empire and little minds go ill together.

Edmund Burke

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
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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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
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
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small

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