A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
EDMUND BURKEYour representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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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 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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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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