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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

Edmund Burke

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
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
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
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

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