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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

Edmund Burke

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
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
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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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
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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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
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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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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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself

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