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

Edmund Burke

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
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
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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Domination Greatness
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People

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