Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
EDMUND BURKEGreat men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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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.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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