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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

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
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
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
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
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
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
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
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
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
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
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
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
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
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
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral

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