There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
EDMUND BURKEA coward’s courage is in his tongue.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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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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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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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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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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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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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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