Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
EDMUND BURKEBut what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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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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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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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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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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