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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

Edmund Burke

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
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
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
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
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
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
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
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

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