In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
EDMUND BURKEI 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.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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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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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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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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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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