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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

Edmund Burke

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Himself Mistake
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE

Multitude Tyranny
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
EDMUND BURKE

Ability Man Ourselves Regular
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
EDMUND BURKE

Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
EDMUND BURKE

Build Prudence Rage Time
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Man Struggle
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
EDMUND BURKE

Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
EDMUND BURKE

Absence Existence Liberty Moral
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
EDMUND BURKE

Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
EDMUND BURKE

Equality Man Right
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
EDMUND BURKE

Flatter Generosity Receive
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKE

Kind Learning Man
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
EDMUND BURKE

Mindset Religion Superstition
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
EDMUND BURKE

Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Justice Policy
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
EDMUND BURKE

Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try

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