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

Edmund Burke

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
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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Age Economics Forever Success
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
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
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
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 tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
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
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
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule

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