All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
EDMUND BURKETo read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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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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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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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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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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