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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.

Edmund Burke

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
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
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
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
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
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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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary

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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