This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
EDMUND BURKEBy hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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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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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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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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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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