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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

Edmund Burke

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
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
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
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
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
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake

Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

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