Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
EDMUND BURKEIt is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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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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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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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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You can never plan the future by the past.
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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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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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