Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
EDMUND BURKEThose who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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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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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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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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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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