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.
EDMUND BURKEIn a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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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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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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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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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 people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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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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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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