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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

Edmund Burke

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
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
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
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
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
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
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

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