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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Edmund Burke

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
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
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
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
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
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression

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