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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Edmund Burke

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
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
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
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
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
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance

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