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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

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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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
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
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
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
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
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.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
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.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves

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