All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
EDMUND BURKEI cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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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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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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