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Edmund Burke

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
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
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
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
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny

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