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Making people ripe for destruction

Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction.

Author Greg RavenPosted on June 21, 2013November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories moralsTags John Witherspoon

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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