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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.

Edmund Burke

Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
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
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKE

Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
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.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
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
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
EDMUND BURKE

Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
EDMUND BURKE

Age Economics Forever Success

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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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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