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

Edmund Burke

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
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
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
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.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
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
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time

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