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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Edmund Burke

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
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
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
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
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
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
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
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
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
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
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

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