When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
EDMUND BURKEJustice 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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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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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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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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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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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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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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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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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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