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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Edmund Burke

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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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
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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Assumption Country Himself Man
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
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
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
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
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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Build Prudence Rage Time
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience

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