There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
EDMUND BURKEPeople will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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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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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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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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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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