Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKENothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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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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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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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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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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