You can never plan the future by the past.
EDMUND BURKELiberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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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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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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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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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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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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