He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
EDMUND BURKEThe 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.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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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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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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