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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Edmund Burke

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Himself Mistake
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
EDMUND BURKE

Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
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
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
EDMUND BURKE

Courage Coward Tongue
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
EDMUND BURKE

Hate Love Vice
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
EDMUND BURKE

Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
EDMUND BURKE

Defend Errors Inheritance
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
EDMUND BURKE

Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKE

Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
EDMUND BURKE

Abandonment Power Willing
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
EDMUND BURKE

Credit Invention Knife
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE

Delusion Give Up Liberty People
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE

God Man Separate Unity

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