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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

Edmund Burke

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
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
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
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
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
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
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner

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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