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.
EDMUND BURKEApplaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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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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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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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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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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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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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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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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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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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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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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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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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 only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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