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Quotes by Edmund Burke
- The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
- The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
- The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
- There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
- 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.
- Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
- To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
- Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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