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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

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
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
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
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
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 tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
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 greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Sin Yourself

The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

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