Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
EDMUND BURKEAll men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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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 don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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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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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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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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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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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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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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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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