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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice. – Edmund Burke

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

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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. – Edmund Burke

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Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express. – George A. Smith

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Whoever is new to power is always harsh. – Aeschylus

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. – Andrew Carnegie

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Its being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power – if youre willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do. – Whoopi Goldberg

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Seek peace, and pursue it. Proverbs 34:14 – Bible

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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. – Jonathan Swift

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