All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
EDMUND BURKEAll men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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