Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKEA populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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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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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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