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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

Edmund Burke

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
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
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
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
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
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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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot

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