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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.

Edmund Burke

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
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
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
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
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
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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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
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
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
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
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State

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