If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKEThe greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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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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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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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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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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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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