Edmund Burke
"Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco."
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"Our patience will achieve more than our force."
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
"It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare."
"You can never plan the future by the past."
"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."