The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of the wisdom of Him who made it.Edmund Burke
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Edmund Burke
In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.
Edmund Burke
As wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other.
Edmund Burke
An event... upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Edmund Burke
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgments - success
Edmund Burke
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