Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
EDMUND BURKEApplaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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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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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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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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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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