Our patience will achieve more than our force.
EDMUND BURKEYou can never plan the future by the past.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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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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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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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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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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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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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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