By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
EDMUND BURKEA populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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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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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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