It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKEJustice 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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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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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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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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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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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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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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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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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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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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