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

Edmund Burke

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
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
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
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
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
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
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success

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