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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

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
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.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
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
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
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
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View

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