All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
EDMUND BURKEThe blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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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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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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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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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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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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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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