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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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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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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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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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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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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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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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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