The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
EDMUND BURKEIf we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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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 populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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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 the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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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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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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