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.
EDMUND BURKEBut 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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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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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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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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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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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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