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The science of constructing a ...

The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may rise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning. The reverse also happens; and very plausible schemes, with very pleasing commencements, have often shameful and lamentable conclusions.

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When a great man has some one ...

When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Freedom and not servitude is t...

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

Edmund Burke 708 quotes

Society cannot exist unless a ...

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.

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Not men but measures a sort of...

Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

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The men of England,- the men, ...

The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.

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Restraint and discipline and e...

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

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There ought to be system of ma...

There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

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If we owned the property, we w...

If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor

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The liberty I mean is social f...

The liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of restraint. A constitution of things in which the liberty of no one man, and no body of men, and no number of men, can find means to trespass on the liberty of any person, or any description of persons, in the society. This kind of liberty is, indeed, but another name for justice.

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Contempt is not a thing to be ...

Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

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Men are qualified for civil li...

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

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The essence of tyranny is the ...

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

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Men have no right to put the w...

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

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Evils we have had continually ...

Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.

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Society is indeed a contract. ...

Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existenc

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A people who are still, as it ...

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

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I do not know the method of dr...

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

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I cannot stand forward, and gi...

I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the subject as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for nothing) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

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As the rose-tree is composed o...

As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcastЂ'alternately tempestuous and sereneЂ'so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....