Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKEThe greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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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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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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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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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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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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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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