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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Edmund Burke

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
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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Age Economics Forever Success
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
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
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
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
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
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
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
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics

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