Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
EDMUND BURKEIt is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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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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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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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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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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