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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Edmund Burke

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
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
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
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
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
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
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
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
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
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
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
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People

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