The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
EDMUND BURKEYou can never plan the future by the past.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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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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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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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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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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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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