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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

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
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
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
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral

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