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Good order is the foundation of all things.

Edmund Burke

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
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
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
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
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
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
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest

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