The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Quote by Edmund Burke

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The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one,...

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one,...

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

To innovate is not to reform.

To innovate is not to reform.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

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...

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.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded;...

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded;...

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do...

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do...

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason,...

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason,...

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.

I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.

You can never plan the future by the past.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of...

Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of...