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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Edmund Burke

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKE

Kind Learning Man
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
EDMUND BURKE

Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
EDMUND BURKE

Economics Economy Essential Expense True
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
EDMUND BURKE

Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKE

Deep Goodness Tolerance
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
EDMUND BURKE

Domination Greatness
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
EDMUND BURKE

Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE

Destiny History Repeat
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
EDMUND BURKE

Mindset Religion Superstition
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
EDMUND BURKE

Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
EDMUND BURKE

Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKE

Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Infant Original Planning Thinking
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
EDMUND BURKE

Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
EDMUND BURKE

Essence Force Law Stupidity

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