All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
EDMUND BURKENever despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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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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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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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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You can never plan the future by the past.
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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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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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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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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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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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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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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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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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