Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Quote by Edmund Burke

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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law...

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law...

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little...

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little...

The march of the human mind is slow.

The march of the human mind is slow.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn...

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn...

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful...

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful...

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do...

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do...

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds

Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart

Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart

In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.

In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for...

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for...

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

Good order is the foundation of all things.