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.
EDMUND BURKEThey defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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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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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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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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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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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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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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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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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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