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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

Edmund Burke

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
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
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

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