History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
EDMUND BURKEGood company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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