The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
EDMUND BURKEManners 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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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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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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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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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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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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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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