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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Edmund Burke

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
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
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
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
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
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
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
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
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
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 essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

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