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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

Edmund Burke

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
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
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
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
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
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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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
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

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