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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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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
EDMUND BURKE

Assumption Country Himself Man
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
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
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
Turn over a new leaf.
EDMUND BURKE

Let Go One Liner Start
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
EDMUND BURKE

Evil Goodness Man Ourselves

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