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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Edmund Burke

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
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
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
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
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
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
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
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man

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