People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
EDMUND BURKEPeople crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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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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