The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
EDMUND BURKETo read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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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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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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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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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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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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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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