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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.

Edmund Burke

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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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
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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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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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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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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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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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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