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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

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
EDMUND BURKE

Grave Ourselves Treasure
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
EDMUND BURKE

Despair Work
Turn over a new leaf.
EDMUND BURKE

Let Go One Liner Start
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
EDMUND BURKE

Cheap Defense Education Nation
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
EDMUND BURKE

Hate Love Vice
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
EDMUND BURKE

Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
EDMUND BURKE

Caution Wisdom
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Infant Original Planning Thinking
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
EDMUND BURKE

Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
EDMUND BURKE

Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
EDMUND BURKE

Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare

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