We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
EDMUND BURKEAll men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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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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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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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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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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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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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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