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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritan

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. – 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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good
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Edmund Burke
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…
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. – Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
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Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what youre going to be thinking tomorrow. – Glen Beaman

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Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that were so fond of it. – George Eliot

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He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. – Herman Melville

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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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