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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

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
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
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
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
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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Infant Original Planning Thinking
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
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
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

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