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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Edmund Burke

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
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
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
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
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
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
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
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success

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