Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
EDMUND BURKEThe hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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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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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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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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