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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

Edmund Burke

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Himself Mistake
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
EDMUND BURKE

Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
EDMUND BURKE

Build Prudence Rage Time
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
EDMUND BURKE

Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
EDMUND BURKE

Difference Fatal Religion
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
EDMUND BURKE

Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKE

Deep Goodness Tolerance
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE

Destiny History Repeat
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
EDMUND BURKE

Money Statistics
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
EDMUND BURKE

Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
EDMUND BURKE

Infant Original Planning Thinking
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
EDMUND BURKE

Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKE

Kind Learning Man
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
EDMUND BURKE

Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
EDMUND BURKE

Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom

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