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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Edmund Burke

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
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
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
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
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
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience

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