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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.

Edmund Burke

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
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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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
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
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
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
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice

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