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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.

Edmund Burke

To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
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
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Turn over a new leaf.
EDMUND BURKE

Let Go One Liner Start
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
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
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
EDMUND BURKE

Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary

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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