You can never plan the future by the past.
EDMUND BURKEThose who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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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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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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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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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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