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 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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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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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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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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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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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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