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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Edmund Burke

To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Turn over a new leaf.
EDMUND BURKE

Let Go One Liner Start
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 a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
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
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
You can never plan the future by the past.
EDMUND BURKE

Future Past Planning Yourself

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