Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
EDMUND BURKEA great empire and little minds go ill together.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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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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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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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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