The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
EDMUND BURKEIt is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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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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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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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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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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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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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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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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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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