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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Edmund Burke

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
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
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
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
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
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
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance

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