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

Edmund Burke

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
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
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue

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