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

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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. – Edmund Burke

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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. – Jean Baudrillard

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