Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKEA State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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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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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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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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Turn over a new leaf.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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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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