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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Edmund Burke

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
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
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past 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
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
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
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
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

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