To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
EDMUND BURKEGreat men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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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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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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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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