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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

Edmund Burke

Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World

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