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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

Edmund Burke

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
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
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
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
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
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
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
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
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
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
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
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself

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