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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

Edmund Burke

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
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 greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
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
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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Darkness Force Need People Success
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
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
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
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

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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