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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

Edmund Burke

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
EDMUND BURKE

Equality Man Right
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
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
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.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
EDMUND BURKE

Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
EDMUND BURKE

Domination Greatness
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics

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