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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

Edmund Burke

Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
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
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
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
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
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
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small

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