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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.

Edmund Burke

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
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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Assumption Country Himself Man
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
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
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
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World

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