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

Edmund Burke

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
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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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
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
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
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

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