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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

Edmund Burke

Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
EDMUND BURKE

Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
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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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
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
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
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
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
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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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
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
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice

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