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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

Edmund Burke

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
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
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
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
EDMUND BURKE

Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
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
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
EDMUND BURKE

Courage Coward Tongue
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
EDMUND BURKE

Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
EDMUND BURKE

Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKE

Deep Goodness Tolerance
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
EDMUND BURKE

Government Injustice Oppression
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE

Evil Goodness Man Necessary

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