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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Edmund Burke

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
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
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
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
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
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
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
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
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness

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