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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.

Edmund Burke

Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
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
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
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
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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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
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

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