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

Edmund Burke

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
EDMUND BURKE

Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
EDMUND BURKE

Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE

Delusion Give Up Liberty People
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
EDMUND BURKE

Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
EDMUND BURKE

Essence Force Law Stupidity
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
EDMUND BURKE

Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
EDMUND BURKE

Despair Work
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 BURKE

Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Himself Mistake
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
EDMUND BURKE

Age Economics Forever Success
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
EDMUND BURKE

Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
EDMUND BURKE

Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
EDMUND BURKE

Equality Man Right
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE

Multitude Tyranny
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
EDMUND BURKE

Equality Level
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
EDMUND BURKE

Grave Ourselves Treasure

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

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