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

Edmund Burke

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
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
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
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
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
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
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity

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