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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

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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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
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
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
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
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst

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