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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Edmund Burke

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
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
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
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
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
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
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Justice Policy

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