Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKEPower gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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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 the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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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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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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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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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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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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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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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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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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