It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKEPeople will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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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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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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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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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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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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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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