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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

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
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
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful

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