Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
EDMUND BURKEThe people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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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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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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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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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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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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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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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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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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