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Evil prospers when good men do nothing. ↗

— John Philpot Curran

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A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty. ↗

— Roy Bean

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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides. ↗

— Brendan Behan

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