You can never plan the future by the past.
EDMUND BURKEIt is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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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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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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