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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Edmund Burke

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
EDMUND BURKE

Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
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
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
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
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
EDMUND BURKE

Credit Invention Knife

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