Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
EDMUND BURKEAll government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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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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