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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

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
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin 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
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
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
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
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
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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