The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
EDMUND BURKEThe 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.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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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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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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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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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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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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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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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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