Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
EDMUND BURKEThose who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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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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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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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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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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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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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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