Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
EDMUND BURKEPower gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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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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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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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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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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