All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
EDMUND BURKESilence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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