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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

Edmund Burke

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
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
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
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
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
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
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
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
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 first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity

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