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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

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
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
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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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
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
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
There 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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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

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