Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
EDMUND BURKEEducation is the cheap defense of nations.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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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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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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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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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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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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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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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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