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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

Edmund Burke

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
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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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
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
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
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

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