Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
EDMUND BURKEPrudence 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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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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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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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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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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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 grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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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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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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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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