All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
EDMUND BURKEA State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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 greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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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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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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