Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse."
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"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse."
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"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
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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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"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference."
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"Facts are to the mind what food is to the body."
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"Beauty is the promise of happiness."
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"But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever."
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"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."
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"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."
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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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"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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"Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls."
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"Good order is the foundation of all things."
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"People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous."
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"A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words."
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"The wisdom of our ancestors."
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"War never leaves where it found a nation."
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"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny."
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"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."
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"You cannot plan the future by the past."
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