It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
EDMUND BURKEThose who attempt to level never equalize.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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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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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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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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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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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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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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