The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
EDMUND BURKEJustice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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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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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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