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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.

Edmund Burke

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
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
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
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
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself

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