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The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.

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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

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Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.

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Good order is the foundation of all good things.

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Nothing less will content me, than whole America.

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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

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Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.

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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

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So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.

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Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed.

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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

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That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.

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The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

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Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

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You strike at the whole corps, if you strike at the head.

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

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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

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Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.

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Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.

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A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

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There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

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In all forms of Government the people is the true legislator.

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No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

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Nature is never more truly herself, than in her grandest form.

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Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.

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Never, no never, did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another.

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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

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