History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
EDMUND BURKEBad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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