The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
EDMUND BURKEThose who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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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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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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