All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
EDMUND BURKETo speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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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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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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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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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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