Quote by Edmund Burke
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, o

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great. – Edmund Burke

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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. – Edmund Burke

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Change
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And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable. – Edmund Burke

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Welfare
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. – Edmund Burke

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good
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Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more. – Pierre De Beaumarchais

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. – Albert Camus

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The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does. – Barres

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I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace. – Abraham Lincoln

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Cant live with them, or without them. – Aristophanes

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