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Good order is the foundation of all things.

Edmund Burke

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
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
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
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
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
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
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
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
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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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success

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