The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
EDMUND BURKEThose who attempt to level never equalize.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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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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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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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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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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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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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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