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

Edmund Burke

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
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
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
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
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
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value

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