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

Edmund Burke

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
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
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
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
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
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.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
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
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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