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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

Edmund Burke

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
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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Greatness Justice Policy
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

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