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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice. – Edmund Burke

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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world. – Edmund Burke

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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. – Edmund Burke

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Society
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. – Edmund Burke

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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. – Joseph Addison

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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. – Marcus Aurelius

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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. – John Stuart Mill

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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power. – Patricia Cornwell

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This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. – William Shakespeare, Henry VI

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Absence of proof is not proof of absence. – William Cowper

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If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. Were a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues. – Madeleine Albright

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