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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

Edmund Burke

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
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
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
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
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
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
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom

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