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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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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

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Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

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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.

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Edmund Burke

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

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