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

Edmund Burke

A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
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 hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
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
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
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
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
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
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
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves

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