Our patience will achieve more than our force.
EDMUND BURKEThe people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Justice 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.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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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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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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