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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Edmund Burke

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
EDMUND BURKE

Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
EDMUND BURKE

Born Death History Live Value
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
EDMUND BURKE

Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
EDMUND BURKE

Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
EDMUND BURKE

Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory

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