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Good order is the foundation of all things.

Edmund Burke

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
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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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
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
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
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
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot

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