People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
EDMUND BURKEThe great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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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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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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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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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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