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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

Edmund Burke

Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
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
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
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
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
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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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
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
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
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
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

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