A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
EDMUND BURKEThe grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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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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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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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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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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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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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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