The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKEWe must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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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.
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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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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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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