Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
EDMUND BURKETo make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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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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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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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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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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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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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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