All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
EDMUND BURKEToleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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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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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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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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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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