The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKEThe 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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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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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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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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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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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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