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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Edmund Burke

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
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
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
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
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
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
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
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
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
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
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner

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