A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
EDMUND BURKEYou can never plan the future by the past.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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 true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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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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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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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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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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