Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
EDMUND BURKEYour representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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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 essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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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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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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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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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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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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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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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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