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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Edmund Burke

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
EDMUND BURKE

Domination Greatness
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
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
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
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
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
EDMUND BURKE

Born Death History Live Value
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Himself Mistake
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
EDMUND BURKE

Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
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
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
EDMUND BURKE

Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
EDMUND BURKE

Credit Invention Knife
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
EDMUND BURKE

Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
EDMUND BURKE

End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness

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