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Good order is the foundation of all things.

Edmund Burke

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
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
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
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
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
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
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering

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