This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
EDMUND BURKEHistory is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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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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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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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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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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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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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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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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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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