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

Edmund Burke

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
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
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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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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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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