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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Edmund Burke

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
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
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
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 tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKE

Deep Goodness Tolerance
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
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
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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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
EDMUND BURKE

Courage Coward Tongue

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