All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKEPrudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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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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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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