Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
EDMUND BURKEBad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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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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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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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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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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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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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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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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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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