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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

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
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
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
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
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
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
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
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
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness

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