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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

Edmund Burke

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
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
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness

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