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"Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time."
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By Edmund Burke
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"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
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By Edmund Burke
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"The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands."
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By Edmund Burke
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"I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone."
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By Edmund Burke
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"Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing."
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"It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives."
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By Edmund Burke
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"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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"When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
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"All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and"
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