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Quote by Edmund Burke
People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backwa

People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. – Edmund Burke

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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. – Edmund Burke

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Liberty
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Edmund Burke
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. – Edmund Burke

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

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power
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Edmund Burke
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Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead. – Marty Meehan

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The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living. – James Robertson

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I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. – Martin Scorsese

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Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I cant stop to count it. – Evita Peron

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