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

Quote by Edmund Burke

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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.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel...

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel...

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral...

Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral...

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

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

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

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is...

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is...

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national...

If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national...

That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors,...

That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors,...

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond...

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond...

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands...

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands...