Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
EDMUND BURKEApplause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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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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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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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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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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