It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKEWhenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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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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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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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.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do 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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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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