Our patience will achieve more than our force.
EDMUND BURKEThere 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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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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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.
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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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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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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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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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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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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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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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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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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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