Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKEGreat men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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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.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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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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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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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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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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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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