You can never plan the future by the past.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.Edmund Burke
If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.
Edmund Burke
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund Burke
A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves.
Edmund Burke
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