A great empire and little minds go ill together.
EDMUND BURKEThe people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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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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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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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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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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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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