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

Edmund Burke

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
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
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
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
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
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
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 greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection

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