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

Edmund Burke

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
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
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
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
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human 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
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
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
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
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
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
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
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right

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