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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

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
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself 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
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

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