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Edmund Burke

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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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.

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Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

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Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents.

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