All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
EDMUND BURKEA populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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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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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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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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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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