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You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
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
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
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
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
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
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
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
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular

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