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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

Edmund Burke

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
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
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
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
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
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
You can never plan the future by the past.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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