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.
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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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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The 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.
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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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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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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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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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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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