It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the … - Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke

It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned.

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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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We've organized human potential and have been better at using human potential better than any country on the face of the Earth. That's because we've recognized that our national creed, our national identity, is that it doesn't matter where you're from, it matters where you're going. You can come from hard circumstances and do great things. We've got to make that true for a whole variety of people who no longer feel that.

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