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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

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
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value

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