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

Edmund Burke

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
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
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve 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
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
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
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
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
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification

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