Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
EDMUND BURKEWe must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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