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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

Edmund Burke

A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
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
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate

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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