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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Edmund Burke

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
EDMUND BURKE

Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE

Darkness Force Need People 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.
EDMUND BURKE

Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
EDMUND BURKE

Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
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
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
EDMUND BURKE

Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
EDMUND BURKE

Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKE

Kind Learning Man
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKE

Digest Eat Reading Reflection

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