To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
EDMUND BURKEThose who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers 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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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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