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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

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
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
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
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
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
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
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing

All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.

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