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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Edmund Burke

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
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
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 greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
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
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
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
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
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
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
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
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
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
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
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
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

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

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