All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
EDMUND BURKEThe greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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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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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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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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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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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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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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