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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Edmund Burke

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
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
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
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
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
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
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
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
EDMUND BURKE

Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
EDMUND BURKE

Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live

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