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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

Edmund Burke

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
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
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
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
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
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
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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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power

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