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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.

Edmund Burke

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
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
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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Age Economics Forever Success
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
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
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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Creator Government Law Nation Nature

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