The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
EDMUND BURKEEquity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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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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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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