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A great empire and little minds go ill together.

Edmund Burke

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
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
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
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
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
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
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
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

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