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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

When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
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
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
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
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
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
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner

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

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