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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

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
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
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
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
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
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
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression

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