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- The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
- One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
- Good order is the foundation of all things.
- If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
- The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist…
- Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
- A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins…
- Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
- There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
- All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
- The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
- All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing.…
- Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in good Earnest; and…
- Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
- Evil succeeds when good men do nothing
- There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and…
- But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition,…
- Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents…
- My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I…
- Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more…
- The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.
- All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing
- For evil to prevail, all that good men have to do, is nothing.
- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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