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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Edmund Burke

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
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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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
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
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
It 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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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
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

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