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.
EDMUND BURKEKings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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