The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
EDMUND BURKETo make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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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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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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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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