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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

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
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
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
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
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny

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