The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
EDMUND BURKEIn 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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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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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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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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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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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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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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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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