“ Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. ”
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“ The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ”
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“ An event had happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. ”
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“ All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. ”
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“ No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. ”
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“ Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing. ”
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“ Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. ”
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“ Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. ”
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“ All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. ”
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“ Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. ”
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“ The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. ”
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“ 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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“ Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. ”
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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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“ But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having highsounding words in their mouths. ”
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“ Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." [Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)] ”
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“ Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. ”
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