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

Edmund Burke

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
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
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
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
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
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular

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