The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKEHypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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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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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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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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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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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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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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