Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
EDMUND BURKEGeneral rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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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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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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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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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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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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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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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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