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

Edmund Burke

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
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
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
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
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
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
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness

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