Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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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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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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But 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.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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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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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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