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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
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.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
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
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves

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