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" Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. "
Edmund Burke
New
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" Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. "
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" A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. "
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" But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. "
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" Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. "
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" To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. "
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" The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. "
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" He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. "
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" The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. "
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" 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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" Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. "
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" If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. "
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" It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. "
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" Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. "
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" One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. "
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" To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. "
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" I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. "
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" People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. "
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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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" When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. "
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" Custom reconciles us to everything. "
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" Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. "
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