Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
EDMUND BURKEPeople will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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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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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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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.
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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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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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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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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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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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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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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