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

Edmund Burke

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
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
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
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
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
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
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing

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