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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

Edmund Burke

All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
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
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
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
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
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
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power

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