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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

Edmund Burke

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
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 greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
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
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
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
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
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
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View

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