Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKEA State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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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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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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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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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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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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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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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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