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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

Edmund Burke

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
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
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
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
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
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
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
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
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth

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