People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
EDMUND BURKEI cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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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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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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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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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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