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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Edmund Burke

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
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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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
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.
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Greatness Justice Policy
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
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
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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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion

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