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 BURKEThe tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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