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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

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
EDMUND BURKE

Hate Love Vice
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
EDMUND BURKE

Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
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
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
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
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
EDMUND BURKE

Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
EDMUND BURKE

Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKE

Digest Eat Reading Reflection
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE

Darkness Force Need People Success

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