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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

Edmund Burke

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
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
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
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
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
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

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