Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKEToleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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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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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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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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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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