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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

Edmund Burke

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
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
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
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
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful

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