Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
EDMUND BURKEBad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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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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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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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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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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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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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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