All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
EDMUND BURKEWhat ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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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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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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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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