These gentle historians, on the contrary, dip their pens in nothing but the milk of human kindness.
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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
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Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman, but he cannot make a gentleman.
Edmund Burke
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves.
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Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.
Edmund Burke
The march of the human mind is slow.
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