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 | "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to
do nothing." | |
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Found in the topic Apathy.
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| "Good order is the foundation of all good things." | |
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Found in the topic Good.
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| "The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger
traces we everywhere find of the wisdom of Him who made it." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Mere parsimony is not economy....Expense, and great expense, may be
an essential part of true economy." | |
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Found in the topic Economy.
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| "Education is the cheap defense of nations." | |
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Found in the topic Defense.
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| "The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse." | |
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Found in the topic Power.
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| "He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our
skill. Our antagonist is our helper." | |
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Found in the topic Endure.
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| "Early and provident fear is the mother of safety." | |
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Found in the topic Early.
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| "The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and
calculators has succeeded." | |
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Found in the topic Past.
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| "Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too
confident security." | |
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Found in the topic Anxiety.
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| "He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block
itself." | |
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Found in the topic Father.
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| "The true danger is, when liberty is nibbled away for expedients, and
by parts." | |
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Found in the topic Liberty.
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| "It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact." | |
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Found in the topic Gravity.
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| "Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither,
in my opinion, is safe." | |
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Found in the topic Justice.
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| "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its
conservation." | |
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Found in the topic Change.
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| "You can never plan the future by the past." | |
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Found in the topic Future.
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| "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to
their ancestors." | |
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Found in the topic Ancestors.
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| "To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not
given to men." | |
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Found in the topic Tax.
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| "The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment;
but it does no remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not
governed, which is perpetually to be conquered." | |
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Found in the topic Vigilant.
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| "When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss
cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment we have no compass to
govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer." | |
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Found in the topic Precedent.
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