Our patience will achieve more than our force.
EDMUND BURKEIt is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs 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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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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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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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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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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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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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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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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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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