To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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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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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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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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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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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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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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