An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
EDMUND BURKEMen love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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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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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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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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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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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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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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