Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKEIt is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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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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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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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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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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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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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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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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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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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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