An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
EDMUND BURKEBut the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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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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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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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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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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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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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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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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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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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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