Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
EDMUND BURKEWhenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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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 greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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