Edmund Burke | hope
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke | great
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Edmund Burke | great
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Edmund Burke | great
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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Edmund Burke | great
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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