People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKENothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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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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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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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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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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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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