Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
EDMUND BURKEThe credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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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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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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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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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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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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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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