Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
EDMUND BURKEGreat men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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