Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
EDMUND BURKEA great empire and little minds go ill together.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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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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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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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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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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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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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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