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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Edmund Burke

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
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 hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
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
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
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
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom

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