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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

Edmund Burke

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
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
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
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
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
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
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
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
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
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

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