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

Edmund Burke

Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
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
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
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself

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

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