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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Edmund Burke

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
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
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
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
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 true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True

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