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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

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
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
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
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
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People

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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