An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
EDMUND BURKEThe use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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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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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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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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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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