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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.

Edmund Burke

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
EDMUND BURKE

Build Prudence Rage Time
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
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
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
EDMUND BURKE

Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
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
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
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself

A coward’s courage is in his tongue.

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