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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

Edmund Burke

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
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
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
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People

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