Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
EDMUND BURKEThere is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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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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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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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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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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