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You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
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
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
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
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
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
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
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
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself

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