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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Edmund Burke

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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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
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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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
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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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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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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It 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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