Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
EDMUND BURKEIt is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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