People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

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Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.

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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.

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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

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We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke in A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, 1756
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

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No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

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