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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Edmund Burke

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
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 Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
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
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
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
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
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

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