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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

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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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
EDMUND BURKE

Age Economics Forever Success
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
EDMUND BURKE

Caution Wisdom

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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