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

Edmund Burke

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
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
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
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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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle

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