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“Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriæ of old eruptions, grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine, and the sustaining corn.”

— Edmund Burke

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Good order is the foundation of all things.

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

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