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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

Edmund Burke

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
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
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
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
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
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
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
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
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
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

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