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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

speech, 5 May 1789, in E. A. Bond (ed.) Speeches … in the Trial of Warren Hastings (1859) vol. 2

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It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.

attributed (in a number of forms) to Burke, but not found in his writings; see Burke 75:29

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Not merely a chip of the old ‘block’, but the old block itself.

on the younger Pitt ’s maiden speech, February 1781

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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

speech at County Meeting of Buckinghamshire, 1784, attributed in E. Latham Famous Sayings (1904), with ‘except’ substituted for ‘but’

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The people are the masters.

speech, House of Commons, 11 February 1780; see Blair 55:20

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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Speech at Bristol, previous to the Late Election (1780)

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