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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Edmund Burke

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
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
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
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
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Justice Policy

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