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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

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
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
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
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
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
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

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