The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
EDMUND BURKEGood company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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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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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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