Those who attempt to level never equalize.
EDMUND BURKEPolitics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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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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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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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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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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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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Turn over a new leaf.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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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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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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