The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
EDMUND BURKEWhen you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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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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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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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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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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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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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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