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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

Edmund Burke

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
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
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
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

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