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 BURKEIt is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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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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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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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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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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