History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
EDMUND BURKEThe credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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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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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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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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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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