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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

Edmund Burke

Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
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
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
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
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
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
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

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