Education is the cheap defense of nations.
EDMUND BURKEAll 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.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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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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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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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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The 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.
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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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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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