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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Edmund Burke

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
EDMUND BURKE

Hate Love Vice
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
EDMUND BURKE

Born Death History Live Value
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
EDMUND BURKE

Change Conservation Conversation State
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
You can never plan the future by the past.
EDMUND BURKE

Future Past Planning Yourself
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
EDMUND BURKE

Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKE

Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
EDMUND BURKE

Corruption Existence Liberty People
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
EDMUND BURKE

Government Injustice Oppression
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 Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
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
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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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
EDMUND BURKE

Build Prudence Rage Time
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
EDMUND BURKE

Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE

Multitude Tyranny

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