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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.

Edmund Burke

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
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
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
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
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence 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
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
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
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
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
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value

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