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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Edmund Burke

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
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity

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