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

Edmund Burke

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
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
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
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
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
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
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral

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