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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

Edmund Burke

Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability 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
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
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
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

Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason

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