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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Edmund Burke

All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
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
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
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
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
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value

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