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Edmund Burke

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
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
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
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
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
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue

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