The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKEAll men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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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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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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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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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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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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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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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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