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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

Edmund Burke

Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

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