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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Edmund Burke

To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
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
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary

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