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You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
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
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
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
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
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
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
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
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power

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