Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
EDMUND BURKEReligion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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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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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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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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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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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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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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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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