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

Edmund Burke

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
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
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
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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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
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
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
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
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
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

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