A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
EDMUND BURKEThey defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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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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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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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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