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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. – Edmund Burke

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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. – Edmund Burke

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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. – Edmund Burke

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great
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. – Edmund Burke

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People
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I am an agnostic I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. – Clarence Darrow

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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. – John Ruskin

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars – when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know. – Thomas Aquinas

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