But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
EDMUND BURKEBad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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