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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

Edmund Burke

Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
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
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
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
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
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
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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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
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst

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