An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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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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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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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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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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