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Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Edmund Burke

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
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
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
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
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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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
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

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