The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
EDMUND BURKEGreat men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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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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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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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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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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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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