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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

Edmund Burke

Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
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
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
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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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself

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