An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
EDMUND BURKESuperstition is the religion of feeble minds.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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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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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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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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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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