Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
EDMUND BURKEAn event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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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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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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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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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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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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