Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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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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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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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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