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" Custom reconciles us to everything. "
Edmund Burke
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" People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. "
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" 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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" The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. "
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" If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. "
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" 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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" Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. "
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" The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. "
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" Laws, like houses, lean on one another. "
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" But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. "
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" He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. "
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" All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. "
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" I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. "
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