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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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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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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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The march of the human mind is slow.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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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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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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