To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKEAll that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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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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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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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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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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