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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

Edmund Burke

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
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
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
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
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
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
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

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