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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

Edmund Burke

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
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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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People

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