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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

Edmund Burke

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
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
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
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
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
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
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience

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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