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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

Edmund Burke

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
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
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
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
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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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
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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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst

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