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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

Edmund Burke

Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
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
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
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
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
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
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run

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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