Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKEHistory is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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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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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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