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

Edmund Burke

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
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
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
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
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
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
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
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
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
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 tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
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

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