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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

Edmund Burke

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
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
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
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
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
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
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
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
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
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion

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