Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
EDMUND BURKEThose who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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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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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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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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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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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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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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