All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
EDMUND BURKEEducation is the cheap defense of nations.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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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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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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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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