Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
EDMUND BURKENobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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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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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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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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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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