Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKEEducation is the cheap defense of nations.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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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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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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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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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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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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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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