The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
EDMUND BURKEThe credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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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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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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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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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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