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The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

Edmund Burke

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
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
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
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash

The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

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The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

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