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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

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
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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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
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
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
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
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
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People

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.

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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.

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