To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
EDMUND BURKEHistory consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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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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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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