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

Edmund Burke

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
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
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
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
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
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression

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