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

Edmund Burke

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
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
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
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 tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
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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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
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
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
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
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
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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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat

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