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You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke

The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Sin Yourself
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE

God Man Separate Unity
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE

Multitude Tyranny
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE

Bad Law Worst
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
EDMUND BURKE

Affection Animal Creation Social
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
EDMUND BURKE

Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Infant Original Planning Thinking
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
EDMUND BURKE

Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
EDMUND BURKE

Grave Ourselves Treasure
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
EDMUND BURKE

Foundation Religion Society Stability True
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
EDMUND BURKE

Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
EDMUND BURKE

Applaud Fall Recover Run
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
EDMUND BURKE

Change Conservation Conversation State
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
EDMUND BURKE

Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
EDMUND BURKE

Despair Work

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