Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Quote by Edmund Burke

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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.

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...

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...

You can never plan the future by the past.

You can never plan the future by the past.

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

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

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...

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,...

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...

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

It is in the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere

It is in the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to...

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to...

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in...

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in...

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views....

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views....

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,...

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of...

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of...

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of...

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of...

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...