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.
EDMUND BURKEAll the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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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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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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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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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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