Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKESilence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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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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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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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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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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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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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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