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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

Edmund Burke

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
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
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
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
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
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason

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