Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
EDMUND BURKENothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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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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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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