Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
EDMUND BURKEIf we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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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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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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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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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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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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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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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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