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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Edmund Burke

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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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
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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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
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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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
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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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
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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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare

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