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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

Edmund Burke

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
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
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle

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