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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.

Edmund Burke

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
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
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
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
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
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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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
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
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True

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