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 credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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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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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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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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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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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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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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