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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

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
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
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
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
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics

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