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

Edmund Burke

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
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
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
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
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
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
EDMUND BURKE

Creator Government Law Nation Nature
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular

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