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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

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
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
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
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
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
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 gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
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
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
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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