Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
EDMUND BURKEI cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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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.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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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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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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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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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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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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