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I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity

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