The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKEFlattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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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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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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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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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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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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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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