To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKEWhat ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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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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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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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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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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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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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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