The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKEKings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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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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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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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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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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