In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
EDMUND BURKECircumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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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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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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