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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.

Edmund Burke

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
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
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
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
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake

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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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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