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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.

Edmund Burke

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
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
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
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
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
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
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
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

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