History 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.
EDMUND BURKE
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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History 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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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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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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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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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.
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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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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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