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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

Edmund Burke

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
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
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
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
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
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

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