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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Edmund Burke

Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
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
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
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 men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest

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