They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
EDMUND BURKEThose who attempt to level never equalize.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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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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You can never plan the future by the past.
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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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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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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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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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