"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."
-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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"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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