They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
EDMUND BURKEWhen you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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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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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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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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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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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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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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I 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.
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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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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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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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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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