Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
EDMUND BURKEThere is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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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.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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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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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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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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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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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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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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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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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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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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