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

Edmund Burke

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
EDMUND BURKE

Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
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
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKE

Deep Goodness Tolerance
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
EDMUND BURKE

Domination Greatness
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
EDMUND BURKE

Born Death History Live Value
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Assumption Country Himself Man
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
EDMUND BURKE

Hate Love Vice
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
EDMUND BURKE

Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering

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