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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

Edmund Burke

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
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
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People

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