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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. – Edmund Burke

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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. – Edmund Burke

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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. – Edmund Burke

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

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Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. – Charlotte Whitton

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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. – Henry David Thoreau

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