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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

Edmund Burke

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
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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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
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
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success

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