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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

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
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
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
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

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