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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
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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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
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
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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