"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."
-Edmund Burke
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.“
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"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together."
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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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"I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people."
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"The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time."
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"You can never plan the future by the past."
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"The most positive men are the most credulous."
-Alexander Pope
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-Walter Lippmann
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"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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-Georg C. Lichtenberg
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"Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions."
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"Strong women only marry weak men."
-Bette Davis
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