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

Edmund Burke

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
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
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
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
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
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
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection

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